Hi All, I'd really appreciate a quick answer on this - I do not have root on my redhat machine. But I am allowed to install programs to my user space. So I was unable to install the open office 2 beta 2 rpm's as you NEED root. So I actually went to the trouble of building the entire thing from source. wahoo! However, it seems to my deep disappointment the end result of the build was again RPM's! A dmake install did nothing, but generate RPM's again. I cannot see how to simply get it to install. Is there anyway to get openoffice to install to my user space, without RPM's? Is there an installer program (a-la the old staroffice) If anyone has a way to get this without needing root it would be really appreciated Also, if you can reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] it would be great as I am not a list member. Thanks for any and all replies John McGrath